What happened to your tan?”–Fang”It was dirt.” –Max

Marty, my mother used to say “Never get greedy with God.” I think what she meant was “Don’t dare ask for more if you already have what you need.”

Do you want to know the closest thing to feeling the most powerful you can feel ? Flying alone at night.Risky.Nothing but you and the wind soaring way above everything , Slicing through the air...

Max.God, but she was stubborn. And tough. And closed in. Closed off. Except whenshe was holding Angel, or ruffling the Gasman’s hair, or pushing somethingcloser to Iggy’s hand so he could find it easily without...

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

And you’re blind?”Uh-huh,” Iggy said, trying to sound bored.Were you born that way?”No.”How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it?”Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always...

Is that clear?” said Borcht “as clear as pea soup” I said

He knew that people were staring at him. He looked different. Even different from other Erasers. He wasn’t as —seamless. He didn’t look as human as the rest of them did when they weren’t morphed....

Vhat ozzer abilities do you haf?” ter Borcht snapped, which his assistant waited, pen in hand.Gazzy thought. “I have X-ray vision,” he said. He peered at ter Borcht’s chest, then blinked and looked alarmed.Ter Borcht...

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

But what is life if you don’t live it?

People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It’s hard.

Isn’t it lucky?

I don’t damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

Max, you’re the last of the hybrids who still has…a soul.’ … ‘She doesn’t have soul,’ Gazzy scoffed. ‘Have you ever seen her dance?

Can I come in?No! I’m in a towel!I’m blind!

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you’re faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow,...

I know. And you hate Fang looking at those girls. But we’re still havingfun, and Fang still loves you, and you’ll still save the world. Okay?

The truth will set you free, its the little white lies that’ll save your ass.

You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.

You stand out like a fart in church.

No you dooonnn’t!” Fang’s voice spiraled away into nothingness, far aboveme.Inside my head, almost drowned out by the roar of wind rushing by my ears, Iheard the Voice make a tsking sound. You guys are...

It’s okay, Ig.” said Fang. “Just give it your best shot.” Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.

Except fang. I glared at him. “Go on, try to stop me, I dare you.” It was like the old days when we used to wrestle, each trying to get the better of the other....

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn’t mean that all stories have to, even if that’s what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review....

Men suck, even imaginary ones

I choose you,” he said very softly, “Max.”Then his hard, rough hand tenderly cuppoed my chin, and suddenly his mouth was on mine, and every synapse in my brain shorted out.We had kissed a couple...

The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school....

How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?”Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

They call me, The Sharkalator

I prefer canine-American,” said Total.

You’re a brave, brave girl, Tula” Gaby told her.”I know”, said the little girl. “I got it from you.

They [Erasers] were bad fliers,” Angel chimed in, “And in their minds, they weren’t all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

So the first thing we’re gonna do,” I told him, “is push you off the roof.

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

I’m glad I’m feeling this way. I’m really glad.”Dr. Keyes looked rather dismayed. “Really, sweetheart?””Yes. And I don’t want to let it go. Not yet. I’m just starting to feel it. And it feels…I don’t...

I look like prep school Barbie,” Nudge complained, as she entered the kitchen. She caught sight of me in my uniform and looked mollified. “Actually, you like prep school Barbie. I’m just Barbie’s friend.

This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him – for breaking my heart twice.

Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me… And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous...

Behind every successful woman, there’s a big prick.

Helping you change your mind,” he whispered, and then he leaned over,tilted my chin up, and kissed me.

We want Max to… breed. To produce heirs. Who will govern the world after she dies.”Dead silence for quite some time. We all stared at Dr. Hans, our jaws dropped to various levels. Our lives...

That was the funniest thing I’d heard in days.You’re kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me than ‘fair is fair.’ Life isn’t FAIR, Dean….Nothing is fair, EVER. That’s the stupidest...

It’s funny how different people are. If I’d been this kid and someone was snarling “Ordering a pizza?” at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back “Yeah. You want pepperoni?”-Maximum Ride

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

NOOOO!” On the screen, a woman’s eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream.Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her,...

Yeah, and so Max and Dylan are supposed to, like, go to Germany and have kids together,” I heard Gazzy say. My eyes popped open and I bolted upright.”What?” Fang said, his voice icy.”Gazzy!” I...

Some kids get called ‘bundles of joy’ or ‘slices of heaven’ or ‘dreams come true.’ We got ‘the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.’ Doesn’t have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I’m oversensitive.

Kami matamu, Iggy. Kau tak perlu melihat selama kau memiliki kami.

Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealousreaders.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhapstoo much ice...